Fancy a roast this Sunday? First watch The Animals Film

What does the word “animals” mean to you? Favoured creatures we have domesticated and turned into household pets? A species best kept under lock and key in a zoo, or simply a tasty element in the food chain? Or dare we say it, human beings who have reverted to the law of the jungle?

According to the film-makers Victor Schonfeld and Myriam Alaux, animals are a pathetic biological category that we have learnt to torture and treat to a violent death. First seen by a mass public on Channel 4 during its first week of programming, their famous documentary The Animals Film (1981) is now released on DVD 26 years after the groundbreaking event that turned several hundred thousand meat-munching viewers into staunch vegetarians overnight. This is not a cosy film but one of the scariest horror movies - ever.

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Tagged as: Animals, Biology, Documentaries, Domesticated Animals, Filmmakers, Horror Movies, Jungles, Myriam Alaux, Pets, Species, The Animals Film, Vegetarians, Victor Schonfeld, Zoos

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